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Σκάρος
One of the many improvised melodies played by shepherds throughout continental Greece while watching their flocks, performed on the classic pastoral instrument, the flute (the Greek flogera). The tune is also known as skaros.
“The flogera is an elongated hollow cylinder, open at both ends. It is made in various sizes, from about 15–20 cm up to roughly 85 cm, and from various materials: reed, wood, bronze or iron, bone, and in the post-war years from plastic. … The flogera up to 50 cm usually has six holes in front at equal distances from one another, or six in front and one at the back for the thumb. The long flogera, from about 60 to around 85 cm, which in Epirus is called tzamara and in Thrace kavali, has seven holes in front, or seven in front and one at the back”.
From the book Greek Folk Musical Instruments by Phoebus Anogianakis, pp. 147-148
